104 Spiritual Astrology
himself manifest to man as the Grand Geometrician of
the Universe to shower his blessings upon man in the form
of knowledge and wisdom. When man leaves the earth
plane he receives the wisdom of Pymandaris. That is why
the glyph of ‘Pi’ differs from that of Gemini only in respect
of the lower horizontal line. This glyph is later borrowed
as a letter in the Greek alphabet.
We have said that the phenomenon of objectivity is
the characteristic of this sign. In the first place, man has
his physical body and other vehicles that differentiate him
mentally and emotionally from the rest of the world. This
is the objectivity on the physical plane. Upto the level of
the lower mind, this objectivity is vanquished by the inner
subjectivity only in the sleep state. In the higher planes of
the mind, that is, the buddhic and the soul-levels, his
objectivity is vanquished by a conscious sleep which is
called the fourth state or the yogic state of consciousness.
Gemini influences the acquisition of such a state.
When man breathes in air, the air in his lungs is
differentiated from the air outside. This is the objectivity
of breath. Man speaks out with the aid of the air within
and he feels that he is speaking to the other person in
objectivity. The pass-word “So” means “He” or the other
person. Breath is taken in from the objective air through
this pass-word at the gate of the two pillars (the vocal
cords). When the disciple meditates upon the throat-centre
and tries to link up mentally the air in his lungs with the
air outside, he will get the thread of consciousness which
he follows to enter the inner chamber of the temple. Here
the elemental of air gives the initiation required through
a process of Pra-n.a-ya-ma prescribed by the seers of the Ra-ja
Yo-ga school. Va-yu, the elemental of air, is therefore
recognised as the first objective Guru who leads one to